27 April 2010

When it comes to little Internet thingies that get tweeted or blogged like crazy, I usually get bored in about 10 seconds. Here's one that held me for quite a while though: Pick One. There is nothing to explain, really: Two words show up on your screen, and you click on one of them. And repeat. As much as you want.

This is probably not unique to me at all, but when faced with either-or choices, my initial gut reflex is to frame the two options as being on opposite ends of a continuum. So you can imagine how amusing these were:

Here were the toughest ones for me:

(I'm not a socialist creep, I just have issues in the mornings)

And the easiest:

The more I clicked on choices, the more I started framing my decisions in different ways. If it was a tough decision, I framed the two as, "Which one would I miss the most if it went away?" and "What would be a comforting alternative if I lost X?" Images of flying to Tokyo to save music and switching to the Wall Street Journal to keep eating cheeseburgers came to mind. Then I started thinking about what an interesting personality test this website would make. What do you think?

EDIT | Prominent blogger Eric Tabone just informed me that this site is something like 3 years old. Good, I was starting to think that I was actually up on things for once!

23 April 2010

Some of you may have heard of Make A Chart Day by now, but if not: It's Friday. Charts are nice. Let's make some. Make A Chart Day was started one Friday a few weeks ago by Bud, and was taken over the following Friday by Clay. The torch then got passed to Rachel, and now I have been granted the great honor of hosting this week. Here's how it works:

• Make a chart• Tweet it (you can @ me @tokyohanna if you want)• Include the hashtag #makeachartday• I'll post them all here

Get to it! I'll be tweeting reminders throughout the day and updating this post every few hours, including a link to your Twitter profile. I'll start it off:

Here is our first round of submissions at 10.00am. The bar has been set high, folks.

And our official last chart of Make A Chart Day IV comes from Undercurrent's newest member, @joe_liebman:

We ended up JUST shy of 40 charts this week with 38, which is bonkers, insane and awesome. You guys rock. Thanks again to Bud for the torch, and best of luck to whomever gets to host next week. Thanks everyone! Have a great weekend.

JK LOL EDIT: We had a last-minute entry from @TheRobHayes, and it's pretty cute/amusing/good: